Greek ACMI specialist Marathon Airlines has landed a new European contract with Aeroitalia of Italy.
The Athens-based carrier is supplying a single Embraer 175 to Aeroitalia, which has a current fleet of 10 Boeing 737-800s, plus a pair of ATR 72-600 turboprops. The 88-seat Embraer will be able to undertake longer sectors within Italy that have insufficient traffic to merit deploying one of the 189-seat Boeings.
Marathon’s E175 began services earlier this month on an unusually long five-year wet lease arrangement; the length of the contract means that it has been worthwhile for Marathon to adopt Aeroitalia’s full livery on the Brazilian small narrowbody jet.
The aircraft, based at Comiso Airport in the south of Sicily, is mainly serving Italian regional routes. As well as operating into major airports in Milan and Rome, it will also link up a series of small secondary airports, such as Parma and Cuneo. It will particularly serve destinations in Sicily – Trapani, Catania and Palermo, as well as its home base at Comiso.
Aeroitalia serves no fewer than 16 points within Italy, as well as a small number of regional destinations in central and eastern Europe, such as Bucharest and Bacau (Romania), Brno (Czechia) and Lublin (Poland).
Marathon provides ACMI services to several airlines, notably in Africa,
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